The students also heard a brief presentation from Sister Eviginia Gachiri concerning her work to end the practice of female circumcision in Kenya and surrounding countries. The former teacher is director of the Termination of Female Genital Mutilation project, and she explained both the practice and its occurrence in 27 of 47 African nations, including Kenya, in which 34 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 19 have been circumcised.